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We spent the whole day
yesterday
at the Singapore Zoo and the evening at the similar Night Safari.
It's a great zoo, and we saw a lot of interesting animals,
but it was a long, hot day. We got there at 9am in order to
have a wild breakfast (pictures with an orangutan and a boa constrictor
and eating a drangon fruit), and we didn't leave until about 12 hours
later. It was really interesting, but it was just too long of
a day.
Singapore is hot. We're about 1
degree north of the equator, so it's always hot. We felt it
more yesterday than the days before because we were outside a lot
instead of being in and out of buildings. Fortunately, the
Zoo has a few air-conditioned shelters sprinkled through the grounds to
help us cool off and be able to feed Douglas. Unfortunately,
they like to charge a lot for bottled water, so they made the drinking
fountains scare. It was nearly impossible for us to refill
our water bottles.
I don't want to only complain;
the Singapore Zoo has a great collection, including apparently the
largest primate collection in the
world, and we saw a lot of them: orangutans, chimpanzees, sloths,
lemurs, macaques (I liked the lion-tailed version), gibbons, mandrils,
etc. They also have an Australian outback area, a section on
tropical
crops, a lot of snakes and reptiles (including a Komodo dragon!), and
many, many other very interesting animals.
We probably should have headed back to the hotel for a break
between the Zoo and the Night Safari, but we had taken a bus to get to
the Zoo, and it took about 90 minutes. We didn't want to
waste three hours for a round trip in the middle of the day, so we
stayed there the whole time. Only later did we realize that a
taxi would have taken less than a half hour, so we could have
managed.
The Night Safari is a lot like a zoo, but
it's intended to show the animals at night (when most are more active),
so they don't allow flash photos. We took a tram that drove
us through areas with many tropical animals at
play.
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